December 18, 2010

We're Live, sort of

Hi Everyone,

Yes, PizzaQuest.com is now live, though we're not officially opening till Monday, when the press announcement goes out and all that jazz. We're still tweaking and have more to do, so there are a few glitches that we plan to clean up in the morning but there's enough going on that you might want to take a peek. If you log onto www.pizzaquest.com that should get you there, but if you run into a firewall, then use the full URL: www.fornobravo.com/pizzaquest The site will guide you once you get there, so take your time and enjoy. This has been two years in the making from when I first heard from Brad English and Jeff Michaels who had the idea of turning my book, American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza, into a TV series. The series is still in the making but we didn't want to sit on all this great footage, so we partnered up with oven maker extraordinaire, Forno Bravo, and have finally put the pieces together. We're off an running....

On the book front, I met with Mark Witt and we have the testing website almost complete. Before the end of the month I will post information about how it will all work but we probably won't start the actual testing until the middle or the end of January. That will give everyone who makes the testing list time to gather their ingredients. So things are moving and we (Denene Wallace, my co-author, and I), have about half the recipes worked up, but I still need to format them for testing. Lots of work ahead but it's happening. So, as usual, keep checking back and you will soon have all the details.